singing praises to destruction

They tore down the house next door to me. It was a cute little house, but it sat for almost two years with the Katrina damage, and the people plan to replace it with a two-story using the space better. I thought it would be fun to gut and fix up, but Ahmed's idea of ripping it down was right.

Pipeworks of Harahan did really a fantastic job with ripping it down - it took them only three days of intensive work, during which they never blocked the streets or anything. They didn't leave their debris hoping for FEMA to come back through to pick it up - they loaded all up and drove it away immediately, and they leveled it with sand when they were finished. And they had workers of different ethnicities (always good, in my eyes, and unlike most of the workers I see around who are grouped by ethnicity exclusively). They weren't even obnoxious at all - even when they were pounding out the slab to remove, it was never unnecessary noise.

So kudos to a local firm who does excellent, professional work - and if you need a house torn down in the New Orleans area, I can highly recommend them.